Moonflower Murders

A Novel

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Lesley Manville, Allan Corduner

From New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz comes a new novel featuring ex-editor hero Susan Ryeland, set to solve another murder mystery

Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police discover blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison. It appears to be an open-and-shut case, but there is more to it than meets the eye.

Alan Conway, the late author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew Frank Parris and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Also, the third book in Conway’s detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, was based on the hotel. Cecily Treherne, the daughter of Farlingaye Hall’s owner, has read the book and believes the proof of Stefan’s innocence can be found in its pages.

But now . . . Cecily Treherne has disappeared. So Conway’s former editor, Susan Ryeland, leaves her own hotel in Crete and travels to Suffolk to investigate the murder and Treherne’s disappearance.

Masterfully intriguing, brilliantly clever and relentlessly suspenseful, Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.

Great mystery well written characters

Great story loved the characters and the mystery the story within a story was great and so was the narrator.

excellent story

enjoyed this story very much. Great characters and a suspenseful plot. Narration was very good ,also

Horowitz does it again.. Genius !!

Initially I balked at the 18-hour duration of this book, but had time in my hands so I plunged in .. I have loved everything that Horowitz had created so I trusted that it would be a good investment of time. Was it worth it? Oh YES. Oh my; it is actually 2 books in one, again melding the present ‘reality’ with the fictional detective and stirring in so many anagrams and other clues , brilliantly conceived to reward the reader. Of course the language is spectacular and the reader/actors are superb as well. Thank you AH for another fantastic journey